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College Avenue Annexation Bills Pass Senate, Headed to Governor’s Desk

From David Milliron’s Avondale Estate’s “City Happenings” Facebook page… Congratulations! The Senate just voted on and passed the Avondale Estates and Decatur annexation bills that will permit the two cities to join borders at Sams Crossing. This legislation brings 23 commercial properties into the City of Avondale Estates and 10 into the City of Decatur. [...]
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The Pinewood Opening in Old Cakes and Ale Spot on W. Ponce

Decatur, lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor! PWTR The above scrawl on the brown-papered windows of the old Cakes and Ale location along West Ponce de Leon Ave in downtown Decatur and an Outkast-inspired tweet were the only initial clues we had thus far regarding the new establishment taking over the built-out restaurant [...]
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Decatur & Avondale’s College Avenue Annexaton Legislation Passes House

Though no one is making much noise about it this year, two pieces of local legislation, which would annex the unincorporated strip along College Avenue into the cities of Decatur and Avondale, has been passed by Georgia’s House of Representatives and now goes onto the Senate, according to commenter “spreak”. I believe this is the [...]
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Evening in Decatur

Bryan sent in this lovely pic from Decatur Square.
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Eye on the Street

Commerce Ave, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Jeff)
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“I Count None But Sunny Hours”

DHS teacher Chris Billingsley writes in… Three marble benches have been restored and relocated along the path in front of the Decatur High School gym. The benches, which were dedicated to DHS teachers from the 1960s, were once located around the flagpole on the southern edge of the campus. The benches may provide a space [...]
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Emory Point Adds Four More Retailers

From a Emory Point press release… Cousins Properties has secured the first U.S. lease for La Tagliatella, a European pasta and pizza restaurant. Founded in Madrid in 2001, La Tagliatella has more than 110 restaurants in Spain and France and chose Atlanta as the first American city to introduce its flavors. Atlanta-based Tin Lizzy’s and [...]
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Telluride film festival screening scheduled for Jan. 21 in Savannah

Savannah is a long way, both horizontally and vertically, from the peaks of Telluride, but that won’t stop films from the Mountainfilm in Telluride festival from making a tour stop at Trustees Theater on Saturday, Jan. 21. Titles, with a sustainability theme, to be screened in Savannah include:

• With My Own Two Wheels: “The story of four people whose lives have been deeply changed by bikes.”
• One Plastic Beach: A pair of artists “have collected plastic trash along a one-kilometer stretch of beach near their home in Northern California”. They make art from the debris, which they collect at a rate of up to “35 pounds per hour.”
• Chasing Water: “Photojournalist Peter McBride sets out to document the flow of the Colorado River from source to sea.”

More information is available on the Festival tour website.

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Not-So-Morning Metro: MARTa, walMART, and Sustainable Rat Poetry

It ain’t morning no more, but here are a few randomly interesting links and an awesome late 70s MARTA map pic.  (Take the last train to Tucker and I’ll meet you at the station!)  Love it or lose it. Over 200 residents (and Thomas Wheatley!) attend Anti-Walmart meeting [CL] Georgia solar bill may get new [...]
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Arborist vs. Arborist – A Decatur City Commission Meeting Topic

At tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting, our commissioners will have to make a determination in a “He Said, She Said” type of case, concerning two live oak trees taken down by Artisan Homes during construction of a new home at 324 Mead Road. You can read all the details – including a timeline generated by [...]
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